When I first read this
He told CNN that al-Rishawi was not wearing an explosives belt when she was apprehended, but two were found with her. One was filled with the explosive RDX, the other with ball bearings -- a technique used by the three bombers who killed themselves Wednesday.
"The aim was to inflict the largest number of casualties," he said.
this came to mind
NBC News: Miklaszewski: "April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon."
(NBC's "Nightly News," 10/25/04)